Walmart to Open 1,000th Online Grocery Pickup Location

Retailer changes the grocery shopping game with pickup service
available across the country, celebrates milestone with free giveaways for customers

BENTONVILLE, Ark., Sept. 6, 2017 – Walmart is making grocery shopping across the country a lot easier. The company is opening its 1,000th Online Grocery Pickup location tomorrow. The free service, which was initially piloted in Denver in 2013, enables customers to order groceries online and pick them up at their local Walmart store without leaving their cars, and will open locations 995th through 1000th in Seattle, Washington.

“Customers from Atlanta to Albuquerque and Nashville to New York have told us what an ally Online Grocery Pickup is in their fight to save something so important – time,” said Mike Turner, vice president of eCommerce Operations for Walmart U.S. “Our daily mission is to help our customers keep a little more money in their pockets and add more time in their schedules. Online Grocery is doing that for the millions of customers who have tried the service, so we won’t stop with store 1,000.”

In celebration of this milestone, Walmart will be giving away sweet treats and $5 promotion codes that can be used with a future Online Grocery Pickup order to customers at Online Grocery locations across the country. In Seattle, the company will be giving away Google Home devices to the first 250 Online Grocery customers in the market.

How It Works

Online Grocery Pickup gives customers access to more than 40,000 items, including fresh produce and meat, pantry staples and great seasonal items from the comfort of their couch.

Order and Choose a Pickup Time: Customers visit walmart.com/grocery or through the Walmart Grocery mobile app, enter their ZIP codes to select a local store and begin creating their shopping lists. During checkout, they select a time to pick up their orders.

Pick Up and Go: Once a customer arrives at the store, they can park in one of the specified Online Grocery Pickup parking spaces marked in orange, and enter a designated number to call to alert an associate. An associate will quickly retrieve the prepared order and load it into the customer’s car within minutes.

An associate gets ready to bag organic tomatoes for grocery pickup

An associate scans ice cream for grocery pickup

An associate scans personal care items for grocery pickup

Grocery Pickup Drive Thru Canopy

A customer checks in at a kiosk for grocery pickup

A customer checks in at the grocery pickup kiosk

A customer arrives in their vehicle for grocery pickup

A customer presses call button for grocery pickup

Grocery Pickup Parking Sign

Associate reviews grocery pickup order with a customer

Family waits as an associate loads the trunk of a vehicle for grocery pickup

An associate loads groceries into the trunk of a vehicle for grocery pickup

An associate loads Pampers into the trunk of a vehicle for grocery pickup

An associate helps a customer with grocery pickup from vehicle

Associate loads a customer's car with an online grocery pickup order

Pickup grocery customer

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One Online Grocery Pickup Fact for Each 100 Stores

More than 400 Online Grocery Pickup locations have been opened just this year.

The service is free to customers – and there is no price markup on products.

The #1 reason customers use Online Grocery is to save time (89%). That’s followed quickly by being able to shop in the comfort of their own home (83%) and by being able to shop any time (79%).

Nearly half of all items bought from Walmart Online Grocery are from fresh departments (produce, meat and seafood, bakery and dairy).

Fresh items are backed by Walmart’s Fresh Guarantee. If customers aren’t satisfied with their fresh products, they can bring in their receipt for their money back.

Customers can pick up their grocery orders in as little as four hours.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live better – anytime and anywhere – in retail stores, online and through their mobile devices. Each week, nearly 260 million customers and members visit our 11,593 stores under 63 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With fiscal year 2016 revenue of $482.1 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.4 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting http://corporate.walmart.com on Facebook at http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/walmart.